this is an invitation to look at the world around you with new eyes.

knowing your arena, trusting it, should also encourage you to recognize the arenas of others as different from your own. you might argue compelling points from your perspective, but they might not hit any structures that carry the same meaning to the other person. empathy, then, is this attempt to understand the arena of another.

if you can laugh at something, you see beyond some facade, and skewer a deeper aspect of truth. since laughter represents understanding, ideally, school should be filled with laughter, no?

the universe is chaos, but you can make do with what it throws at you. creativity allows you to reshape an arena, make ideas manifest in the real world.

questions are our most powerful tool, but if we don't know how to wield them, or are mystified toward untruth, we may not know fully what questions to ask. thus, question everything, pulling threads, jiggling door handles, test the hinges, reconnect wires. judge by the merits it holds itself to, not by the legends told through the ages, i say.

a lens allows us to look at a familiar arena with new eyes. it is a way to use falsehood to reveal more truth. or, to put another way, bend the truth to allow us to appreciate it more.